This study examines the associations between the motivation to learn, basic skills, and organized adult education and training participation among the middle-aged and older adults in the USA.
John R. Bowblis • Austin C. Smith
Business/Economics of Aging
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Community-Based Organizations and Health Care Contracting: Building and Strengthening Partnerships
Community-based organizations (CBOs) such as Area Agencies on Aging and Centers for Independent Living are well-positioned within their communities to improve social determinants of health (housing...
Traci L. Wilson • Abbe E. Lackmeyer (Abbe Linscott) • Suzanne R. Kunkel • Jane Straker
Private equity ownership and nursing home quality: An instrumental variable approach
There is a concern that when private equity firms purchase nursing homes, they will lower quality of care in order to increase profits.
John R. Bowblis • Sean Shenghsiu Huang
Workforce retention and wages in nursing homes: An analysis of managerial ownership
Healthcare providers can be managed by salaried managers or owner-managers that have a significant equity stake in their facility.
Sean Shenghsiu Huang • John R. Bowblis
This paper expands the literature on the heterogeneity among nursing home facilities by determining whether quality at for-profit nursing homes managed by owner-managers is different from those ope...
John R. Bowblis • Sean Shenghsiu Huang
Cost-effective adjustments to nursing home staffing to improve quality
This study holistically examines which type of nursing home staffing (nursing, social service, activities) yields better quality as measured by number of deficiencies and deficiency scores.
Community-Based Organizations and Health Care Contracting
In 2016, the National Association of Area Agencies on Aging (n4a) received a grant from The John A. Hartford Foundation to develop a National Aging and Disability Business Institute.
Jane Straker • Erin Kelly • Suzanne R. Kunkel • Abbe E. Lackmeyer (Abbe Linscott)
Managerial ownership in nursing homes: Staffing, quality, and financial performance
This paper uses facility-level data to determine whether staffing levels, quality, and financial performance is different among nursing homes operated as a nonprofit, a for-profit with an owner-man...
John R. Bowblis • Sean Shenghsiu Huang
From rock-n-roll to rock-n-chair: Are the boomers financially ready for retirement?
Just like generations before them, the baby boomers are not one group, but many.
Workforce Development in the United States: Facilitating Opportunities to Work at Older Ages
Shifts in the age structure of the U.S. labor force, combined with the increased labor force participation rates (LFPRs) among older adults, require policies and programs that encourage and support...
Global Population Aging and Labor Force Implications: Working Longer, Learning Longer
Countries around the world, both more and less developed, are experiencing shifts in age structure.
Challenges for the Workforce Development of Older Workers in Brazil
Alongside reforms to its social security system, it is argued that older workers in Brazil should be encouraged to remain longer in the labor force and postpone retirement while being productive.
A global examination of policies and practices for lifelong learning
Continuous learning over the life course is necessary to successfully compete in a knowledge-based global economy.
The role of community colleges in career transitions for older workers
An aging workforce, combined with the negative effects of the recent economic downturn, has increased the importance of identifying strategies to encourage working at older ages.
What the Paradox of Change Means for the Future of Aging Services
The aging services sector must foster and embrace change, evolving to meet the demands of our modern world, lest it go the way of companies like Kodak and Blockbuster-neither of which anticipated o...
The evolution, innovation, and future of Area Agencies on Aging
More than 600 area agencies on aging (AAA) provide locally responsive, coordinated services for older adults living in every community in the United States.
Jane Straker • Suzanne R. Kunkel
Everyone is Talking About It, But Does It Work?
In response to increasing Medicaid expenditures and consumer preferences, states are reforming their long-term care systems to provide more community-based services.
Integrated Care and the Aging Network: The Next Frontier or the End of an Era?
The strong push to integrate Medicare and Medicaid services has been driven by the federal government through the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services, and by states, in response to two maj...
Ohio CCRCs in the Economic Downturn
This report examines how the economic downturn affected consumer opinions about choosing a Continuing Care Retirement Community (CCRC) and how the CCRCs in Ohio made adjustments in response to decl...
Samuel Mwangi • Jane Straker
Enhancing the SCSEP Network: Collaborations, Innovations, and Promising Practices
Using a mixed methods approach, this study sought to identify innovative and promising practices in providing employment and training services to older workers.
Robert A. Applebaum • Phyllis A. Cummins • Suzanne R. Kunkel
Disability in Ohio: Managing The Projected Need for Long-Term Services and Supports
This report examines Ohio's projected long-term care needs and its implications for the state budget.
Shahla Mehdizadeh
Ohio's Aging Workforce: Opportunities and Challenges for Ohio's Employers
This report focuses on anticipated age-related changes in Ohio's workforce and the effect those changes might have on employers, employees, and society.
Lydia Manning • Shahla Mehdizadeh
Disability in Ohio: Current and Future Demand for Services
In an effort to project the size of Ohio’s Medicaid long-term care expenditures between now and the year 2020, this report first projected the size of the population with severe physical and/...
Shahla Mehdizadeh
Scripps Gerontology Center
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